"It was a glorious era, a golden age ... when he used to speak about David Gonski as though he was a secular saint." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull chides Bill Shorten about a change in the Labor leader's mind about needs-based schools funding.

"This is like the court of a Renaissance Pope - there's excommunications going left, right and centre." - The PM on Labor jettisoning support for the Gonski panel members.

"You! You!" - Labor MPs shout when the PM asks who will be next.

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@terributlermp: Really don't think the PM thought enough about the potential answers to his question "Who is going to be purged next?"

@RealBobKatter: It's like coming into a lunatic asylum here: there don't seem to be many people aware that half our export earnings come from coal & iron ore.